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In a Christmas message to his followers Monday, former President Donald Trump said he hopes supporters of "Electric Car Lunacy" would "ROT IN HELL."

Trump's Monday afternoon Truth Social post continued a theme he had been developing with several other posts since Christmas Eve, attacking Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is prosecuting two criminal cases against him.

The frontrunner of the 2024 presidential race for the Republican Party nomination added a missive against "THUGS," which he said were more "evil" and "sick" than all world leaders. In the grammatically confusing post, Trump also appeared to attack Israel, which Trump lumped in with Iran, as well as both Russia and Ukraine.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Soon Elon will ban his Twitter account again.

edit: also,

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

No he won't. Elon loves him, and what the hell is Twitter?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’ll always be twitter. Just like Facebook will always be Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

But Facebook is still called Facebook

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You know, Twitter, the social media site later called X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh, right. It's Xwixxer now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I think they mean ten

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Since it's Christmas: Jesus wanted a lot of people to rot in hell too... but at least he was nice about it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

According to the church.

For example, in one of the works dismissed as heretical and eventually buried in a jar because even possessing it became a death sentence, the message is very different from the "give everything you have to God and church and await the end of the world" that was being thrown around by the early church:

Jesus said, "The messengers and the prophets will come to you and give you what belongs to you. You, in turn, give them what you have, and say to yourselves, 'When will they come and take what belongs to them?'"

There were groups that were universalist (i.e. everyone gets salvation as a participation prize), but there's not much money in that - why would you give the church what you have if what they are offering you is already rightfully yours?

Elsewhere this text has a parable that seems to liken the concept of salvation to a treasure buried in a field that we inherit, but don't realize it's there, so the field gets sold off to someone else who discovers the treasure and starts lending it out at interest (which is a bitingly apt commentary on the notion of tithing).

Miraculously this version of Jesus's theology ends up not being endorsed by the people who built St Peter's, despite the attitude being more in line with the earliest redactional layers of the canonical gospels too.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Why would you even share this ? Nobody cares about this guy's countless dumb statements.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the GOP ever runs a Kardashian its fucking over for America.

That's all they need, a sufficiently charismatic reality tv star.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Trump never fails to do something completely inappropriate for holidays. What a miserable person. Also hilarious considering how hard Elron has been trying to suck up to the fascist conservative wing.

The way he said "Russia/Ukraine" and then "Israel/Iran" makes it seem that he thinks Israel is in a war with Iran, which isn't totally wrong but also not correct at this point, thankfully.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Well, I think the response to this could end up being "Electric car supporters wish Trump 'rots in hell' in Mastodon Christmas message" which could sound better here.

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